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> In a message dated 08/08/2000 8:35:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> <<
>  Pound's appeals to his family lineage may be a fallacious "argumentative
>  device". But appeals to lineage are also an ancient way of establishing
>  one's bona fides--here in the West.  >>
>
>
> but not in the East, where such ancestor worship is practically unheard
of....
>
> jb...
>
>